some of the money is coming from prop k funds which are one of the fundings for curb ramps and other access improvements. before they spend that kind of money they ought to step up the pace on curb ramps. the web

address is save masonic.com. please go to that website. you will find a lot of information, extensive faq, a sample letter that you can use and also a link. one of the links is to save polk street. thank you again and please checkout save masonic.com. >> thank you. mark brown? >> i would like to appeal to the commission and to the mtc to have the 19 polk street bus remain the same as it has been for several years. i have read the planning commission's report on it and they want to eliminate service north and south to the library up in this neighborhood they want to

reroute the bus to mccall street to polk street which is really in use and they want to eliminate the 19 polk bus line at the hospital and make people transfer to the 48 line which is only going to run every half hour according to this report. this bus line is very important to people with disabilities and seniors coming up from the south east corner of the city. they come to port row hill. i really appeal that the mtc will consider this before they eliminate or cut back services on the 19 polk. thank you. >> thank you. is there anymore public comment? >> good afternoon.

>> excuse me. the captioning is working on the last tv. okay. it's not on our screen. it's on the last tv. okay. thank you. >> excuse me. >> hand-me-down my walking cane. we are going to have a meeting here and we are going to have a time to chat. going to catch the latest sound and we are going to blow your mind and we are going to have a good meeting in the city and town. we are going to have a good meeting every man and woman. do the best you can and i'm a fan and i will even give you a hand. and mayor's disability council, even though i wonder

i'm keeping you in disability sight. you are a candle in the window of city hall. i can't fight disability anymore. i forgot and what i have started fighting for. it's time to start bringing wheelchairs into shore. throw away the canes forever. i can't fight mayor's disability anymore. i forgot what i have started fighting for and we are going to make it better than better. it's better for ever and make it better than forever more. thanks. >> thank you very much. is there anymore public comment? okay. seeing that there is no more public comment. we'll go

to item 4, information team report from chair or cochair is it? right? i just would like to say report from cochair. i went to the new bay view branch public library. very beautiful place. you guys, it's really accessible. everyone should go there and look at it. it's very nice. then they had another event on how to grow your organization whether it's non-profit or just whether it's advocating at the library on monday last week and it was very informational and it will be at the public library again this coming monday. i was forgetting about them captions. sorry. it will be at the main library again this coming monday from 10-1:00. it's

called how to grow your business or advocate for things that you guys do. very wonderful meeting and you guys, free lunch. don't tell them i told you. okay. let's move on, you guys. let's go to item no. 5. information team report from the director of the mayor's office on disabilities. >> thank you cochair wilson. i'm carla johnson the interim director from the mayor's office on disabilities. it's good to see you again. i will keep my report fairly brief today because we have a great agenda today and i want to make sure our guest speaker from city careshare and support with families with disabilities have time to give their presentation. i have three topics today that i would like to tell you about. the first is

an update on the mayor's office on disability move to our new home. the second is the discussion about the upcoming mayor's budget town hall meeting and the last is an introduction to our single room occupancy technical assistance manual. >> the council agreed not to meet in march and that was because our office was very very busy with our move. you will recall that we left 401 van ness, the veterans memorial building because it's closing down for a seismic retrofit soon which is great for earthquake safety and we moved to our new office on 1155 market street. it's known to some of you as the old puc building. our office is very accessible and located across from the elevator from the bart

at the center civic station and besides the upside ground transits were by market street. it's right across from the federal building which is where 504 sit in took place. the occupation and demonstration were held back in june. this resulted in the signing of the health education and welfare regulation implementing section 504 of rehab act of 1973 which was the first civil rights protection with persons with disability in the history of the united states and set off the independent living and civil rights movement. we are in good company there on market street. our new place is really lovely. we have some private

office space where we can hold very confidential meetings that we have with our client base. we also have an open architectural access area that allows us to meet in large groups with the architects plans and other city departments that we work with on other minute projects and we have a space that is going to be handy soon. although it's going to be under construction, we would like to use these offices for some of the meetings for the executive committee meeting that will be taking place next tuesday. we would also like to start holding our physical access community meetings and disability disaster preparedness meeting there. it will help us a lot to hold these meetings at our office because we are currently under

staff and if we can remain in the office then we can keep the office running and functioning rather than close it down for short periods. i also wanted to follow-up on a suggestion, a request that coach wilson made that we would love to make our office available if the councilmembers wanted to meet with disability advocates especially around maybe planning presentations before the council. that space will be there for you as well. just let us know when you need it. and we would like to hold some kind of an office warming event soon to welcome everybody to our new place. one of these idea is to celebrate around the anniversary that takes place in

july. i would like to invite the council. speaking of invitations i would like to encourage you to join us at the mayor's town hall meetings monday morning and monday night. it's in coordination with the members of the board of supervisors and we take it to the neighborhoods. it's a way for people in the neighborhoods to hear from our elected officials about the priorities that the city believes are best, but most importantly it's an opportunity for neighbors and advocates to tell our elected officials about your priorities and by way of an example during the last two years, while the city was facing some pretty hard decision for cuts due to state and federal funding that was withdrawn, we heard from senior and disability advocates who wanted the city to continue

funding services and community based adult services and unlock was particularly effective to bringing speakers to the events and we also heard from the aids activist, the panel, the aids foundation and others. and both the mayor and the board of supervisors responded to this advocacy and found ways to maintain the funding levels for the loss of the federal funds. we can't emphasize enough for how much your voice counts and encourage you to speak during public comment. our office always provides support for the mayor's budgeted town hall meetings to make sure that there is accessible access and we provide captioning services and assistive listening devices

and attend the meetings with active concierges. i'm there in case questions come up about our programs. for example last year there were a lot of questions about some of our a d.a. transition groundwork. our first town hall meeting is tomorrow morning sat april 20th until 11:30. will it cover districts 1 and 4 for supervisors mar and tang. it will be held and george washington high school which is 632nd avenue. the second meeting april 22, it will start at 6:00 p.m. and this is for district 10 and 11 with cohen

and avalos and will be held at the southeast facility 1800 oak dale avenue. the schedule is available online by going to s f mayor.org. we'll post the schedule on our website early next week. the last item on my report is to talk about our single room occupancy grab bar manual. by way of that crown, when supervisor mar, first propose an ordinance in grab bar in a single occupancy hotel. our office was very supportive of that and we saw how it was going to benefit both seniors and people with disabilities and help them live gracefully in their affordable

housing. we had a meetings with the stake holders and staff and i spoke before the building commission and code advisory committee and we participated in the press conferences. this work was done in collaboration with and under the leadership of senior and disability action, the sro collaborative and the department of building and housing inspection services who supported and will be responsible for enforcing the ordinance. i was concerned in our early discusses that the property owners wouldn't know how to make these installations. the bathrooms are smaller and narrow and they don't match any pictures that we see in our books. i was concerned that the property owners might oppose the measure because of cost concerns if they thought they would have to

demolish the bathrooms. i developed a technical assistance manual to help the property owners comply and make sure the installation would be safe and usable for people with disabilities. our office wrote the text, we wrote the diagrams and took photos and had draft man finish the product. the good news the mayor passed this in march and passed unanimously by the board of supervisors. and this week under chief housing inspector's leadership mailed it out to 500 sro hotel property owners and this week we'll have the manual up in our website in a fully accessible format. i think this project is a great example of the work that our office does to support the mayor, the board of supervisors, other city departments and of course people with disabilities. for

those of you who the council members receive this via e-mail you have it in your packets and the members of the public will have this on the with -- website next week and the manual shows the grab bars and how to install them and how to make them usable. that concludes my directors report and thank you very much for your attention. >> thank you very much, carla. >> okay. next up is item no. 6. information team city careshare. city careshare will provide an overview of it's access program and how the services explain mobility. for those who have use of mobility devices. thank

you very much. >> thank you, can you hear me? yeah. pull it up. there you go. >> all right. thank you forgiving us this opportunity to speak and i want to thank joanna for all the help in helping us get here as well. my name is rick hutchinson. a local bay area non-profit. i have a few slides and hopefully a video. what do i need to do? >> it works out. your powerpoint presentation is minimized on the bottom. you just ask for the camera to -- there you go. and your video is up, right? are you going to start the video first? >> no. i'm going to do an overview first. >> great. great. i'm going to start with that and if we can get those

slides up there. okay. great. city careshare -- carshare. >> thank you. i'm not usually that technologically impaired here. so there we go. city carshare, we have been around since 2001. we are as i said a local

non-profit. we provide over 400 vehicles at 200 locations throughout the bay area to allow people to carshare. we have the greenest fleet available and that's very important to car sharing because car sharing is defining to benefit local communities. with the car sharing you effectively become a member, you get access to any vehicle and you may use it whenever you like. city carshare provides many benefits. some of the key ones are that car sharing can save lots of money over the car ownership, we provide many programs for the community. the one i want to talk about today is the access mobile program. access mobile program provides wheelchair accessible fans to the carshare constituency. we have two here in san francisco. as you can see on the slides

that we have both side and rear access vehicles. the ones in san francisco are available at glen park bart. we have this wrong. at glen park bart and the city mission garage. anybody can join. if you don't have a drivers license but you can put 5 people on your account, you can have family members to assist you. you can go anywhere you want. you can have a van from 15 minutes to 3 days. service animals are permitted. any member who join city carshare can add their own hand controls. if you need that installed, we can help with that as well. there is a lot of people i would like to recognize. i want to remember donna spring at the city of

berkeley who helped us put this together in 2008 and one of the advance is named in her honor. you can support us by sharing the vehicles. we want to add more. that cost money and we are non-profit so any help, any usage is incredibly useful and helpful to our community. also captioner would you caption the video once of starts, please. ready?

>> yeah. we are ready. >> i was able to help out my brother. with a van we schedule ahead of time and don't have to worry about other systems. >> the main system i like about the access mobile program is the way it levels the playing field for my brother to be one of everyone else. it gave us a sense of, wow, we can go to a movie theatre in another city just to go to a movie. >> it made me feel like we can hang out together and do casual things. >> if you need to give directions or something important comes up to communicate, they can do that.

it makes it for a more friendly nicer ride. >> when you are in a power chair, you can't just pop in your friends car and get a ride with them where they are going. your vehicle, your transportation won't fit in anybody else's car. i was happy that this was part of the fleet. this was a reason i joined. >> he doesn't have to worry anymore about leaving an event early to catch the last bart train home. as a member of city carshare he has access to a van, access mobile that can accommodate his wheelchair. >> [inaudible] >> it was like in redwood city.

how many forms of transportation? you took bart to cal trains and then walked two miles. i have been a member of carshare for a while and then you introduce the access program. it was great. that was fabulous. >> [inaudible] >> i love those testimonials.

i'm happy to answer any questions that anybody might have. >> thank you very much. we are going to open it up to the council first and then to the public. am i right? okay. i'm getting it. okay. we are going to hold it up. we have mr. wong. >> yes. thank you for the presentation. in the future i would like to find more information about how to obtain and use the vehicle accessible van and one thing, sorry my notes are not -- like